Worst. Review. Ever.

A few months ago, Mr. Mottaz and I were talking about rough show reviews. He mentioned the one that you about to read as a prime example of "a reviewer REALLY disliking a show and unloading all the one liners that they'd saved up from other shows and unloading them on this one show."

It's as if they'd stored up all of their rage at all of the bad shows that they'd seen and vomitted them up on this show. Which couldn't possibly have been as bad as this reviewer says it was.

(I post this not to criticize the company or it's players, but to illustrate a reviewer unleashing a nuclear salvo on a flatulent chipmunk. If you were in this show, or know someone who was, kindly keep that to yourself.)

THE SHOW'S TITLE WHICH ALLUDED TO THE FACT THAT ONE OF THE COMPANY'S MEMBERS WAS HANDICAPPED.
Some Random Improv/Sketch Group, at Some RandomChicago Theater.

The hint of political incorrectness in the title was about the only comical thing in this sketch-comedy show performed by a cast whose thoroughly inept delivery of poorly scripted material was nothing less than stunning.
Sober opening-night audience members sat slack-jawed in horror at the dismal vista unfolding onstage while their inebriated cohorts mustered only petite chortles and vague beer-soaked hoots.
SRISG failed to present a single original let alone humorous moment in their hour-long performance, which would have ended in street rioting in a more gentlemanly era.
The jokes were either keg-party cutesy (a ghastly medley of 80s car-related songs) or handpicked from a stopped-up toilet--available vaginas, mercurial penises, Jesus inserting a tampon, obese men in pink tutus (an inexcusable bit that nevertheless provides a place in comedy heaven for actor Johnny Improviser, bless his heart).
Sketch comedy often calls for characters to be put into normal situations with abnormal characters or props or vice versa. Here characters were plopped into potentially funny scenarios as if their mere presence were the punch line.
This was not irony, cleverness, or insolence; it was stupidity.
Obviously inexperienced, the cast sometimes delivered lines so faint and muffled it was difficult to catch the jokes. Perhaps a blessing in disguise.--Anonymous Reviewer.

Thanks to Mr. Mottaz for passing this along.

Cheers,
Mr. B